Steven Dean Gordon, 45, second from left, and Franc Cano, 28, both of Anaheim and in custody, appear for their arraignment in superior court in Santa Ana Friday morning with attorneys Denise Gragg, left, associate defender for Orange County and Hazel-Lynne O. Espejo, right. The men are indicted on four felony counts of special circumstances murder in the commission of kidnapping and rape. The arraignment was continued until October 29.
(MARK RIGHTMIRE, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER )

An unidentified source has indicated that a dumpster at this site, in East Anaheim, was used by serial killer suspects Steven Dean Gordon and Franc Cano to dump the body of Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, 21, of Oklahoma. After a trash truck emptied the dumpsters, Estepp's naked body was discovered on a conveyor belt at a recycling plant in Anaheim on March 14, officials said.
(BRUCE CHAMBERS, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER)

Josephine Vargas, 34, from Santa Ana, is one of four women police beleive were killed by two transients arrested Friday evening. Franc Cano, 27, and Steven Dean Gordon, 45, are being held without bail in the murders.

Kianna Jackson, 20, of Las Vegas is one of four women believed murdered by Steven Dean Gordon, 45, and Franc Cano, 27, who were arrested Friday evening and are being held without bail.

Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, a 21-year-old from Oklahoma whose body was found on a conveyor belt at a recycling center in Anaheim last month is one of four women believed killed by Franc Cano, 27 and Steven Dean Gordon, 45. The pair were arrested Friday evening and are being held without bail.

Martha Anaya, 28, of Santa Ana is one of four women beleived killed by Franc Cano, 27, and Steven Dean Gordon, 45. The pair were arrested Friday evening and are being held without bail.

Anaheim police homicide detective Julissa Trapp, center, lead a team of detectives that were able to solve the serial murder of four women in Orange County. Pictured, from left, are detectives John "JD" Duran, Julissa Trapp, Bruce Linn and Mark Lillemoen. All on the team but not pictured are Sgt. Joseph Faria and Detective Daniel Gonzalez.

Trial begins Wednesday for the first of two Anaheim men accused of kidnapping, raping and killing four women.

Steven Dean Gordon, along with Franc Cano, is facing special-circumstances murder and forcible rape charges connected to the slaying of at least four Orange County women with ties to prostitution.

Gordon earlier this year got permission from Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick H. Donahue to represent himself during the capital murder trial.

Gordon and Cano were arrested following the disappearances of Kianna Jackson, 20; Josephine Vargas, 34; and Martha Anaya, 28, as well as the discovery of 21-year-old Jarrae Estepp’s body at an Anaheim recycling facility.

Prosecutors allege that the pair picked the women up at prostitution hubs in Santa Ana and Anaheim before raping and killing them.

Estepp’s body is the only one that has been located. Investigators suspect that all four women were left in trash bins after they were killed.

Both men were registered sex offenders who were under federal probation and state parole supervision at the time of the suspected killings.

An Anaheim detective during testimony before an Orange County grand jury indicated that the pair’s GPA units were used to track them to areas were the killings were believed to have occurred.

Deputy District Attorney Larry Yellin, who is prosecuting Gordon, has described the pair as a “cold, calculated killing machine.”

Cano, who also faces the death penalty if convicted, wlll be tried separately. A date has not been set for his jury trial.

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